Dangerous new opioid compound found on Cape

MARSTONS MILLS — A man who overdosed in his mother’s basement bedroom on Dec. 27 was allegedly found with 92 grams of a rarely seen opioid compound known as U-47700.Bret Carreiro, 28, of Wheeler Road, also allegedly had 220 grams of fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.Although fentanyl is more common now than heroin in the street drug supply, this marks only one of a few times that Cape [...]